List of international cricket centuries at Edgbaston

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Edgbaston in April 2008.

Edgbaston Cricket Ground (also known as Edgbaston Stadium) is a cricket venue in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England. It is home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club, and is also used for Test matches and One Day Internationals.

Edgbaston hosted its first Test match in 1902.[1] It was during this match that Johnny Tyldesley became the first player to score a Test century at the ground. Alastair Cook's score of 294, which was achieved in 2011 against India, is the highest Test score seen at the ground. The South African Graeme Smith holds the record for highest score by an overseas player with 277, he is also the only player to have scored a century in the 4th innings of a match at the ground.[2]

Fouteen One Day International centuries have been scored at the ground. The highest of these was 171 not out, which was made in 1975 by the New Zealand player Glenn Turner.[3]

Key

  • * denotes that the batsman was not out.
  • Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
  • Balls denotes the number of balls faced in an innings.
  • NR denotes that the number of balls was not recorded.
  • Parentheses next to the player's score denotes his century number at Edgbaston.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won[4][5][6] lost[7][8] or if the match was drawn.[9][10]

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Edgbaston.[2]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 138 Johnny Tyldesley  England NR 1  Australia 29 May 1902 Draw
2 120 Bob Catterall  South Africa NR 3  England 14 June 1924 Lost
3 114 Herbert Sutcliffe  England NR 3  South Africa 15 June 1929 Draw
4 138* Wally Hammond  England NR 3  South Africa 15 June 1929 Draw
5 161 Collie Smith  West Indies NR 2  England 30 May 1957 Draw
6 285* Peter May  England NR 3  West Indies 30 May 1957 Draw
7 154 Colin Cowdrey (1/3)  England NR 3  West Indies 30 May 1957 Draw
8 100 Peter Richardson  England NR 3  New Zealand 5 June 1958 Won
9 114 Neil Harvey  Australia NR 2  England 8 June 1961 Draw
10 112 Raman Subba Row  England NR 3  Australia 8 June 1961 Draw
11 180 Ted Dexter  England NR 3  Australia 8 June 1961 Draw
12 159 Colin Cowdrey (2/3)  England NR 1  Pakistan 31 May 1962 Won
13 101* Peter Parfitt  England NR 1  Pakistan 31 May 1962 Won
14 137 Ken Barrington  England NR 1  New Zealand 27 May 1965 Won
15 104 Colin Cowdrey (3/3)  England 247 1  Australia 11 July 1968 Draw
16 274 Zaheer Abbas  Pakistan 467 1  England 3 June 1971 Draw
17 100 Mushtaq Mohammad  Pakistan 283 1  England 3 June 1971 Draw
18 104* Asif Iqbal  Pakistan 169 1  England 3 June 1971 Draw
19 116 Alan Knott  England 175 2  Pakistan 3 June 1971 Draw
20 108* Brian Luckhurst  England 279 3  Pakistan 3 June 1971 Draw
21 150 Roy Fredericks  West Indies 443 1  England 9 August 1973 Draw
22 214* David Lloyd  England 396 2  India 4 July 1974 Won
23 100 Mike Denness  England 189 2  India 4 July 1974 Won
24 106 Clive Radley  England 234 2  Pakistan 1 June 1978 Won
25 100 Ian Botham  England 140 2  Pakistan 1 June 1978 Won
26 155 Geoff Boycott  England 341 1  India 12 July 1979 Won
27 200* David Gower (1/2)  England 279 1  India 12 July 1979 Won
28 105 Derek Randall  England 156 3  Pakistan 29 July 1982 Won
29 143 Larry Gomes  West Indies 279 2  England 14 July 1984 Won
30 117 Viv Richards  West Indies 154 2  England 14 July 1984 Won
31 148 Tim Robinson  England 294 2  Australia 15 August 1985 Won
32 215 David Gower (2/2)  England 314 2  Australia 15 August 1985 Won
33 100* Mike Gatting (1/3)  England 127 2  Australia 15 August 1985 Won
34 183* Mike Gatting (2/3)  England 294 1  India 3 July 1986 Draw
35 124 Mudassar Nazar  Pakistan 362 1  England 23 July 1987 Draw
36 124 Mike Gatting (3/3)  England 280 2  Pakistan 23 July 1987 Draw
37 157 Dean Jones  Australia 294 1  England 6 July 1989 Draw
38 154 Graham Gooch  England 281 1  New Zealand 5 July 1990 Won
39 104 Richie Richardson  West Indies 229 2  England 25 July 1991 Won
40 153* Javed Miandad  Pakistan 337 1  England 4 June 1992 Draw
41 165 Saleem Malik  Pakistan 297 1  England 4 June 1992 Draw
42 190 Alec Stewart  England 261 2  Pakistan 4 June 1992 Draw
43 127 Robin Smith  England 231 2  Pakistan 4 June 1992 Draw
44 137 Mark Waugh  Australia 219 2  England 5 August 1993 Won
45 128 Nasser Hussain (1/2)  England 227 2  India 6 June 1996 Won
46 122 Sachin Tendulkar  India 177 3  England 6 June 1996 Lost
47 207 Nasser Hussain (2/2)  England 337 2  Australia 5 June 1997 Won
48 138 Graham Thorpe (1/2)  England 245 2  Australia 5 June 1997 Won
49 129 Mark Taylor  Australia 296 3  England 5 June 1997 Lost
50 125 Greg Blewett  Australia 228 3  England 5 June 1997 Lost
51 103 Mike Atherton  England 279 1  South Africa 4 June 1998 Draw
52 105 Steve Waugh  Australia 181 2  England 5 July 2001 Won
53 105 Damien Martyn  Australia 165 2  England 5 July 2001 Won
54 152 Adam Gilchrist  Australia 143 2  England 5 July 2001 Won
55 161 Marcus Trescothick (1/3)  England 232 2  Sri Lanka 30 May 2002 Won
56 123 Graham Thorpe (2/2)  England 229 2  Sri Lanka 30 May 2002 Won
57 277 Graeme Smith (1/2)  South Africa 373 1  England 24 July 2003 Draw
58 179 Herschelle Gibbs  South Africa 236 1  England 24 July 2003 Draw
59 156 Michael Vaughan  England 286 2  South Africa 24 July 2003 Draw
60 105 Marcus Trescothick (2/3)  England 182 1  West Indies 29 July 2004 Won
61 167 Andrew Flintoff  England 191 1  West Indies 29 July 2004 Won
62 139 Ramnaresh Sarwan  West Indies 226 2  England 29 July 2004 Lost
63 107 Marcus Trescothick (3/3)  England 158 3  West Indies 29 July 2004 Won
64 142 Kevin Pietersen  England 157 2  Sri Lanka 25 May 2006 Won
65 105 Michael Vandort  Sri Lanka 303 3  England 25 May 2006 Lost
66 135 Paul Collingwood  England 195 3  South Africa 30 July 2008 Lost
67 154* Graeme Smith (2/2)  South Africa 246 4  England 30 July 2008 Won
68 103* Michael Clarke  Australia 192 3  England 30 July 2009 Draw
69 294 Alastair Cook  England 545 2  India 10 August 2011 Won
70 104 Eoin Morgan  England 199 2  India 10 August 2011 Won
71 107* Dinesh Ramdin  West Indies 183 1  England 7 June 2012 Drawn

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Edgbaston.[3]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 171* Glenn Turner  New Zealand 201 1  East Africa 7 June 1975 Won
2 106* Gordon Greenidge  West Indies 173 2  India 9 June 1979 Won
3 108 Graham Gooch (1/2)  England 113 1  Australia 22 August 1980 Won
4 115 Graham Gooch (2/2)  England 159 1  Australia 1 June 1985 Lost
5 167* Robin Smith  England 163 1  Australia 21 May 1993 Lost
6 113 Mark Waugh  Australia 122 2  England 21 May 1993 Won
7 113 Nick Knight  England 132 1  Pakistan 31 August 1996 Won
8 101 Alec Stewart  England 144 1  Zimbabwe 18 July 2000 Won
9 116* Shivnarine Chanderpaul  West Indies 122 1  England 4 July 2007 Won
10 154 Andrew Strauss  England 140 1  Bangladesh 12 July 2010 Won
11 110 Jonathan Trott  England 121 1  Bangladesh 12 July 2010 Won
12 106 Ajinkya Rahane  India 100 2  England 2 September 2014 Won
13 104 Joe Root  England 78 1  New Zealand 9 June 2015 Won
14 129 Jos Butler  England 77 1  New Zealand 9 June 2015 Won

Women's Test centuries

The following table summarises the women's Test centuries scored at Edgbaston.[11]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 104 Margaret Jennings  Australia NR 2  England 3 July 1976 Drawn
2 112* Enid Bakewell  England NR 3  West Indies 1 July 1979 Won

References

  1. ↑ Cricinfo Test matches at Edgbaston
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Statsguru, Cricinfo, 17 March 2010.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Statsguru, Cricinfo, 22 March 2010.
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